Legal Operations Professional

Introduction  

Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients, such as complex licensing agreements, intellectual property, employment counseling, compliance policy creation, and M&A transactions. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.  

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Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each lawyer’s practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.  

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We are actively seeking Legal Operations professionals located anywhere in the United States with the following qualifications to join our team:  

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working within a corporate law or consulting department on projects and ongoing tasks related to legal technology implementations, spend management, budgeting, and operational metrics that aid you in understanding the needs of the in-house law department.  
• Substantive time leading a similar role a plus.  
• Experience designing and implementing documentation, reports, and related work throughout a project lifecycle and ensuring that assigned duties and responsibilities/project results are completed.  
• Experience creating and managing a law department budget and RFP process.  
• Ability to organize, think critically, strategically and tactically, meeting deadlines yet remaining flexible in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.  
• Demonstrated abilities in operational excellence, to independently and collaboratively track and move projects forward while adapting to changing priorities.  
• Excellent verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills with internal collaborators, outside vendors, and other parties.  
• Strong experience in researching, implementing and using legal department technology tools (or similar), such as records management and e-billing.  
• Bachelor's degree required.  

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Preferred Qualifications  

• Experience designing and implementing a law firm convergence program, including structuring and managing an RFP process.  
• Paralegal, legal management, or legal operational certificate from an accredited program a plus  
• Graduate or Juris Doctorate degree a plus.  
• PMP, CAPM, or other relevant project management certification(s) a plus.  

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Support our clients with the following responsibilities:  

• Drive and influence implementation of processes and technologies that enable operational efficiency on foundational matters like intake, contracting, task tracking, knowledge and records management, and other critical needs to run the business of the department (e.g., vendor/firm relationships, billing, change management, program management, etc.)  
• Assist with the design, development, and testing of innovative products, services, and experiences required to advance the operations of an in-house law department.  
• Develop and optimize tools for tracking team initiatives and goals.  
• Identify measures of successful adoption, utilization, proficiency, and risk mitigation.  
• Lead and support cross-functional projects and initiatives.  

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Benefits  

• Predominately remote/hybrid work  
• Compensation commensurate with experience and complexity of engagement  
• 401(k) with company match  
• PTO and paid federal holidays  
• Optional medical coverage; HSA Account; Wellness Program  
• Employee Assistance Program  
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefits (as applicable)  
• Access to professional development resources and learning and development programs.  

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Should your experience meet the role requirements, the Epiq Counsel team will contact you. The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however, due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.  

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It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.